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...refers to the death of his mistress : — DRUMMOND TO HIS LUTE. My lute, be as thou wert when thou did grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When...harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune the spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe 1 Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more,...

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